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Not sure you're being clear about what you mean, here. Is OpenAI's company culture something you consider "low trust"?

That may be the case but the idea that non-technical people didn't pay cash for internet products before the dot com boom is fanciful. I would say AOL's acquisition of a legacy med…

This seems to ignore the fact that millions of non-technical people did pay cash for a product: AOL. And in fact the AOL buyout of Time Warner coincided almost exactly with burst o…

What people are describing here is the colloquial definition of "server", being compute hosted in space. Not a broadcast signal that is interpreted on Earth.

You believe that GPS is hosted on servers in space?

Can you provide a good example of something that is currently hosted in space and distributed via satellite?

There are plenty of exfiltration examples out there that could go through known, commonly-greenlit domains. Even exfil via DNS requests has been demonstrated.

Seems potentially libelous to claim this person isn't actually blind.

I deal regularly with landlords that owe government agencies hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars for years or even decades. None of them are in jail or even at risk of it.…

Not that it's likely but there were publicly-released LLMs, like GPT-J, that were released in 2021.

Odd, I've found that Gemini will completely fabricate the content of specific DOIs despite being corrected and even it providing a link to a paper which shows it is off about the t…

Palantir holds over £1B in contracts with the UK government, some of them of an undisclosed nature. Must be some impressive CSV.

You're under the belief that private actors can't influence state actors to use violence on their behalf, completely isolating them from responsibility? If a private business calls…

Preserving the status quo is a political position.

This is a class of device usually called an "auto dialer" and have been around for quite some time. This one appears to be fairly low-featured. Newer devices will automatically sen…

This is true but it is far cheaper to scan and develop. Labs have to reset the machines to switch over to 65mm/70mm but are running 35mm every day.

VistaVision is being used more often as a cheaper way to get to IMAX or 70mm projections sizes. The gear and filmstock is less expensive for production and you can laser out to the…

The moat is building GPU infrastructure to serve inference at scale.

NYT published confirmation from the USG that at least 40 people were killed.

Videos from the event already show that civilians were targeted during the attack.

After the platform takes its cut the actual percentage is not as appealing.

They don't like tripping over their own gear, either.

The point that people tape off cables to prevent tripping over them is irrelevant? Not sure that's the case. Just because you don't care about cabling doesn't mean everyone else do…

Why not? That's the standard on film shoots in locations that are absolutely "one-time events". People do that all the time.